Petrology and geochemistry of Tahlab ophiolite, northeastern Taftan volcano

Tahlab ophiolite is located at the Southeastern of Taftan volcano and the Sistan suture zone. This ophiolite (Upper Cretaceous) exposed in the Flysch zone (Eocene). Harzburgites and gabbro's rocks are main part of this ophiolite that studied in this article. Ultramafic rocks have olivine and pyroxene minerals.  Mafic rocks have plagioclase, pyroxene and olivine minerals. Serpentine and chlorite have secondary minerals. They are dominant granular, ophitic and sub-ophitic textures. All of REE elements in spider diagrams compared to enrichment mantle have low depletion in HREE and low enrichment to LREE, relatively flat slope, and more similar to E-MORB. Transition elements diagrams (V, Co, Cr, Ni) in against to La / Ce ratio show that differentiation of olivine mineral. High Mg number in the samples (42.91 to 86.02) shows that magma resulted from partial melting from mantle. Also (La/Sm) N in the samples are between 1.37 to 0.34 that show they are mantle source.  Tectonomagmatic diagrams shows Tahlab ophiolite has belonging to extensional oceanic intraplate, so it seems this ophiolite formed by subduction of Neothytean oceanic during Cretaceous between Lut and Afghan blocks.